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Good morning Masters!Friday:7 miles 1:07:19 - 9:37 avg. pace - easy. After my massage in the morning I decided to run last night. It seems the recovery is taking longer than expected and improvement slow. I have an appointment with an orthopedic that specializes in these type of injuries next week so I think I'll just run until I see her and get a better idea what I'm dealing with. Even with my run I had a restful sleep and feel the condition is slightly improved today. Watching F1 practice for the German Grand Prix until the ladies final @ Wimbledon. Looks like rain here, which is fine with me. Enjoy it!

I have a 5k tomorrow called the "Run Thru Hell" and it earns it's name. There could be a creek crossing, lots of single track trail through a woods, and more. I'm pretty sure a couple of my AD competitors who are faster will be there so I feel no pressure to try and win. I'll simply have fun!

Therefore ..... I may run a few miles this morning at an exceptionally slow pace. My mileage is low this week and a few extra miles would help on the journey that us Geezers have going.

Also, I hope the rain holds off long enough to dry my yard for mowing. If not, I'll soon need one of you northern farmers to bring your hay baler.

I'm gearing up for a rough-and-tumble pinochle tournament this morning. :-). Then to my Sis#3's house this afternoon to help finish prepping/cooking our huge Italian dinner for 50 tonight. Then more pinochle tonight. I won the tournament at our last family reunion, so the pressure is on.

About to hit the hay here on Saturday night in Seoul and so a quick note to share my run from today. Got on over to KS this afternoon and managed to get in a 5.23 mile run on the TM in 48:54 (9:21/mile). First half of the run I was around mid 10 min/mile pace and then the last half around mid-8 min/mile pace. Sweatfest but a good run. I'll try for a few miles tomorrow outside.

Hello up above to elizabethnyc, MothAudio, rgreen, Tony Mollica and all the Masters to follow - have a good weekend.

Gregory

P.S.I seew we have gone from being labeled animals to former US Presidents...wonder what I'll be and guess they won't pin a former Canadian Prime Minister on me.

Whirl wind week for me, so for missing all the great runs by the Masters this week. Hope everyone had a great 4th and still enjoying the weekend. First time at a computer in 5 days, been checking emails and reports on the phone. Nice to sit down and read a few posts. Up early today to fit in 16.2 on a beautiful Saturday morning in 2:18:44 @ 8:34 pace. Was moving along well for 14 and faded a bit for the final two. Still a great day for a run and will try to get the bike out for a ride before this evenings festivities.

TC - heard something about Wisconsin in 2015. Hope you do make it out. Will be out to cheer you on.

BOSNPM - skimming I see you hitting the water this week - good work.

Tony - Good Morning to you!! I see your busy with the team this week. Well done on your runs and weight work.

tww - good to see you getting a ten miler in yesterday. I see the Dodgers took Marmol just for the international money.

Pudov - belated Happy Canada Day. I see you had a sweat fest yesterday and today - those are good. Nice work on the strong finish for your 5.23.

Ray - Good Luck in your 5K tomorrow.

elizabeth - thanks for starting us off. Have a great time at the family reunion. Hope your able to retain your pinochle title.

Gotnup early this morning & helped the dh load cabinets so i have my living room back. Then ran 4 miles with 3 at tempo. It was hot so didn't have to run fast to get to tempo.

i did vertical plyo on the asylum with lots of jumps so knee was kind of aggravated. The run seemed to work inflamation out. Felt fine at the end of run. I did role with my cold roller which seems to be working great. Sure beats taking an ice bath. Lol

TC - great work on your 4 mile tempo run. I need to start swimming on a regular basis and distances to even consider trying a tri. You do have me thinking about Wisconsin and have thought of that one before. I can volunteer next year (2014) to be able to sign up a day before it opens up to everyone else.

Let's give this another shot. Geez. You fall out of the habit of posting once and it's too easy to do so again.

So - today was 8 miles. Warm and humid but I felt strong. Surprising and nice. Overall in running, I'm totally focused this year on our local race series. I'm second in my age group (50-54) right now, but in the last 2 races I've finished one spot ahead of the guy in first. He still has the edge as I'm effectively 3 finishing places behind him with 7 races to go. So for all realistic purposes, I have to beat him 5 of the last 7.

Elizabeth - that sounds like a great weekend. Have fun.

Moth - hope you get answers that allow you to enjoy running. Injuries are never fun.

Ray - good luck tomorrow. I think a race in Florida in July would be "hell" by definition. Throw that other stuff in and you've got a whopper of an event. Have fun!

Tony - enjoy the rain run. Has that been constant for you like down here?

Pudov - nice run. Coming back nicely, I see.

Upsman - have a good recovery.

George - do the tri! Then let me know how it goes... I've done one 5 years ago and haven't gotten back to it since.

Good morning Masters!Friday:7 miles 1:07:19 - 9:37 avg. pace - easy. After my massage in the morning I decided to run last night. It seems the recovery is taking longer than expected and improvement slow. I have an appointment with an orthopedic that specializes in these type of injuries next week so I think I'll just run until I see her and get a better idea what I'm dealing with. Even with my run I had a restful sleep and feel the condition is slightly improved today. Watching F1 practice for the German Grand Prix until the ladies final @ Wimbledon. Looks like rain here, which is fine with me. Enjoy it!

Upsman, I was checking rain stats this morning and I know that Carlisle Ky (where Jeriberi lives) has a July avg of 4.59" and they're at 3.49" already. Here in Bradenton, Fl. our July avg is 9.21" and we're at 5.43". Should make for a sloppy race on Sunday!

Tony Mollica, I'll be sure to post a short but informative RR on the Sundaily. It'll probably be nothing you aren't accustomed to but I'm not a trail runner by nature (thank GOODNESS!).

Pudov, have you hooked up with Longboat's daughter yet? He told me she's in Korea and has already met one of our forum gang and was hoping to hook up with you.

Oh .... I put pontoons on my lawn mower and cut the grass in leiu of baling it. I wish I had worn my HRM as I think that 45 minutes of effort would have given me a higher avg HR than my 5 mile easy run this morning.

.75 dog run , then 14.1 mile Long run in Clayton park, 80*F, and humid. Missed starting with HATRs, and thought I'd meet them eventually , but never did. Ran the 7 mile "full tour" route, which hits every trail in the park at least once, with a minimum of repeats, then did it again backwards. Took a fall into some nice soft sand, and rolled out of it unhurt. Wound up walking at the end, with heat exhaustion or something when I ran out of water. 1 liter for the last 5 miles was apparently not quite enough. Still haveing chafing issues...may run top down and see if that helps.. All good training, since I'll need to get this all sorted out by Aug 10th.

I had a nice 12 mile run this morning, then 10 min ice bath 43 degrees my legs felt great after (hurt so good). We have a new ice bath at our PT office hot tub that is all ways 42-43 degrees! I am getting to like the ice bath after Sat runs! We spent the entire day at the beach!

Gregory: Nice 4.12 and 5.23 both longer runs great job!

Illinidave: Nice 8 and great job running with the XC kids

Tony M: Nice 6.3 with the XC kids hope today run was good!

Ram: Nice 4.6 and 14.1FF: Nice swim, my swim was the best one in several years but we had a nice current with us also!

Hurt my back on Wed and only made it 1 1/2 this morning, so I got in some quality work on the bike. By this afternoon it was feeling a little better so I went out in got in 6 1/2 around 7:10 pace. Just minor discomfort. I think I strained it shoveling some mulch. O h well I have rest tomorrow in will see if I'm ready Monday.

George- great job on the 16

Pudov- 5.2 I think that's about the longest one I've seen you do, great job.

Good morning Masters!Friday:7 miles 1:07:19 - 9:37 avg. pace - easy. After my massage in the morning I decided to run last night. It seems the recovery is taking longer than expected and improvement slow. I have an appointment with an orthopedic that specializes in these type of injuries next week so I think I'll just run until I see her and get a better idea what I'm dealing with. Even with my run I had a restful sleep and feel the condition is slightly improved today. Watching F1 practice for the German Grand Prix until the ladies final @ Wimbledon. Looks like rain here, which is fine with me. Enjoy it!